Alveda King Quotes
You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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I hope not to define myself by suffering.
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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
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Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.
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History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
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I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.
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You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.
